A British mother took her 14-month-old child to join the Islamic State in Syria before telling her family she did not want to talk to them if they did not 'love' the terror group.Tareena Shakil, 26, told her family she was going on a package holiday to Turkey in October 2014 but it is claimed that once there she travelled to the ISIS de-facto capital of Raqqa, in northern Syria.She was arrested by British police at Heathrow Airport in February last year after arriving back on a flight from Turkey.

wyatt1 wrote:A British mother took her 14-month-old child to join the Islamic State in Syria before telling her family she did not want to talk to them if they did not 'love' the terror group.Tareena Shakil, 26, told her family she was going on a package holiday to Turkey in October 2014 but it is claimed that once there she travelled to the ISIS de-facto capital of Raqqa, in northern Syria.She was arrested by British police at Heathrow Airport in February last year after arriving back on a flight from Turkey.

:On the first day of the trial at Birmingham Crown Court, jurors heard the former college student later sent messages to friends and relatives in the UK, saying she was 'happy' and asking them to visit. In one message to her father who was back in England, she wrote: 'I can leave, but I don't want (to). I want to die here as a martyr.' She added: 'There are too many blessings dying as a martyr.'

:On the first day of the trial at Birmingham Crown Court, jurors heard the former college student later sent messages to friends and relatives in the UK, saying she was 'happy' and asking them to visit. In one message to her father who was back in England, she wrote: 'I can leave, but I don't want (to). I want to die here as a martyr.' She added: 'There are too many blessings dying as a martyr.'